Was just listening to that Black Flag tribute CD (mentioned in the article) last night. Not gonna say I was disappointed, but it seemed like I enjoyed the covers more than Rollins and co. redoing their old songs. Mike Patton covering Six Pack, Ice-T covering Police Story, and Tom Araya covering Revenge might have been my favorites.

And I'm still not sure how that slow version of Nervous Breakdown made it onto the album. Now that one definitely did disappoint me.

A second version of the band, featuring Ginn, pro skateboarder Mike Vallely on vocals, and drummer Gregory Moore, performed the My War album in its entirety, using pre-recorded bass tracks.

I believe Vallely and Ginn are still touring as a band called Good For You. If the Vallely name sounds familiar, he's the skater that ended up making the Danbury Whalers as an enforcer about 2 years ago and broke his arm on his first shift in a fight.

I was debating on going to this. Grew up listening to Minor Threat and Fugazi, and although The Evens are a little more mellow than what I'm used to listening to, I'm kinda curious how the show will be.

For $6, that's not a bad deal at all. Sounds like it's no opener, which is also good.

This is amazing!!!! Ive been down in the dumps all week and this has brought the biggest smile to my face. Its a project by Olivier Libaux who has taken new wave and punk covers and meeting them amazing. The latest project is called Uncovered QOTSA.

So I recently discovered Gorguts. I'd heard their name for years and basically never bothered listening because their name conjures up some sort of grindcore/brutal death metal band. Man was I wrong. First two albums are authentic slabs of pure early 90s American death metal and their last two are some of the most dissonantly great, mindblowing recordings I have ever heard. Not to mention they have a new one coming out in August that will be their first album since 2001.

I actually appreciate Enter the Wu-Tang, The Low End Theory, Illmatic, 3 Feet High and Rising, and Mama's Gun being on there. I don't think my list would necessarily look anything like that, but I also couldn't argue with the majority of those albums being considered "quintessential" and musts for your music collection.